[GENERAL] How access table by tableoid

2007-05-13 Thread Felix Kater
Hi, can I use a given tableoid (instead of the tablename) to select columns from that table somehow? SELECT * FROM ??tableoid?? My first approach was to lauch a subquery of the information_schema like this: SELECT * FROM (SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE oid=999) AS tablename However, it

Re: [GENERAL] How access table by tableoid

2007-05-13 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:25:37PM +0200, Felix Kater wrote: can I use a given tableoid (instead of the tablename) to select columns from that table somehow? SELECT * FROM ??tableoid?? snip So, I worked around that by peforming two queries: The first to retrieve the table's name from

Re: [GENERAL] How access table by tableoid

2007-05-13 Thread Tom Lane
Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could possibly do this with a SRF; you'd have to grab the name of the table and then build a dynamic query off of that. If you cast the oid to regclass you'll get the name of the table, though you should probably query pg_class and pg_namespace to